Blues Traveler @ Red Rocks Amphitheater

Blues Traveler had an explosive performance for their show at Red Rocks on July 4, 2024 in Morrison, CO.

Blues Travler

With their rollicking mix of blues, rock, and soul, Blues Traveler combine the stretched out and rambling approach of jam bands. With the razor sharp melodic sense of a classic pop band, it made them a hugely popular band from the start. The group were on the vanguard of the jam band scene of the 1990s. The first of their generation to sign to a major label. Also, one of a handful to experience genuine commercial success when “Run-Around” went into the Billboard Top Ten in 1995. By that point, Blues Traveler had already carved themselves a place within the firmament of modern rock. Earning a loyal audience through their sweaty improvs of blues-based rock and coalescing their peers by launching the H.O.R.D.E. Festival in 1992.

One of several Lollapalooza-inspired touring fests, it illustrated the large audience for jam bands and helped push Blues Traveler toward the top of the charts with their 1994 album Four going platinum six times. They continued to work steadily throughout the 2000s and beyond, sometimes experimenting — 2015’s Blow Up the Moon was filled with unexpected cameos — but always returning to the blues as their foundation, a debt underscored by the 2021 covers album Traveler’s Blues.

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